…the boys soldered together an Arduino Proto Shield kit from Adafruit. You can witness their amazing efforts in super-speed time, where sixty minutes of inhaling metallic fumes has been condensed into three power-packed minutes!
By popular demand! We are now carrying the Mega. The Mega is basically a big brother to the Arduino Duemilanove (& similar), with many more pins, UARTs, PWMs, etc. If you’ve run out of pins on your Arduino or you need 128k of flash (compared to 32k!) you will find this a good upgrade!
This is an extra large protoshield designed by Arduino for the Mega. We include 2 sticks of 36 pin header, 5 8-pin female headers and a 6-pin female header to allow easy pluggin’
Photos of an amazing project – We visited Peter Sand and his robotic garden + camera rig + plus a lot more at the W/——— project space in Chinatown, NYC. The giant robot creates a garden, plants seeds, waters them and lovingly tends to it – the operator can control the robotics with a game controller and for the Arduino fans, it has an Adafruit protoshield and Arduinos that help the gardening. To top it all off (literally) one the best camera rig set ups we’ve ever seen – Peter will be posting videos soon, but check out some of past projects to get an idea of what it can do. You can see some of Peter’s previous work here and here…
There’s even a few libraries at the Arduino playground for easy use. Dave Fowler from uCHobby even started out with a great tutorial. However, I didn’t see any good tutorials on how to do the actual -connecting- part. So I took pix while I wired up one to a protoshield and tested it.
Third, I have an Arduino Starter Pack which is a bundle of stuff that will get you going with Arduino hacking with ease!
There’s an Arduino, USB cable, proto shield kit, tiny breadboard (goes on top of protoshield), 9V wall adapter, 9V battery holder, and a bag of parts that will get you started with my Arduino Tutorial lessons 0-6
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